EMHA Overview

Healthcare reform centers on moving from reimbursement based on the number and types of services to paying for the outcome(s) of those services and assuming financial risk for the health of defined populations.

These significant and far-reaching changes require different financial, operating, and analytical systems, cultures, and leadership skills.

Leadership of healthcare organizations must therefore become increasingly proficient in clinical and administrative skills, as well as in leading effective teamwork between units that focus on one or the other.

Courses meet face-to-face once a week in the following succession:

Fall Year 1

  1. Healthcare Management (5 weeks)
  2. Healthcare Quality Management (4 weeks)
  3. Corporate Financial Reporting (5 weeks)

Spring Year 1

  1. Health Policy (5 weeks)
  2. Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare (5 weeks)
  3. Analytics for Healthcare Management (5 weeks)

Summer Year 1

  1. Interprofessional Healthcare Administration I (5 weeks)

Fall Year 2

  1. Leadership in Healthcare Organizations (5 weeks)
  2. Healthcare Financial Management (5 weeks)
  3. Essentials of Public Health (2 weeks)
  4. Health Information Systems (4 weeks)

Spring Year 2

  1. Legal Aspects of Healthcare (5 weeks)
  2. Health Economics I (5 weeks)
  3. Strategic Planning and Marketing (5 weeks)
  4. Managerial Epidemiology (2 weeks)

Summer Year 2

  1. Interprofessional Healthcare Administration II (5 weeks)

–  MHA Integrative Capstone (meets once each semester)